...genius was (ucla, We fcarcely can praife it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the Univerfe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up, what was meant for mankind, Tho' fraught with ¿ll learning, yet firaining his throat, To perfuade (m) Tommy Townfend to lend him...

...Burke: Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought...

...NARROWNESS AT YALE. "Andnow he ivalktth in a narrow -way." —DANTE. " Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." —GOLDSMITH. *T^O accuse of narrowness the three divisions of a great •*• university, the undergraduates,...

...genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind: Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him...

...One may compare Goldsmith's couplet in ‘ Retaliation ‘ :— Who, hOrn for the Universe, narruw'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. M. GAIDOZ calls England “ the country in which classical studies are most honoured at large.” Englishmen...

...intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, " Who born for the universe narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ? " My revered friend walked down with me to the beach, where we embraced and parted with tenderness,...

...existing, and known, his Retaliation. The criticism of Burke, for instance, is an exalted Common Sense— " Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to Party gave up what was meant for Mankind." That is the larger grasp of common Sense rising into high Sense. " And thought of convincing while...

...world with his opinion of Sir Walter Scott's charucter as a Man. " If there were a writer, who, ' bom for the universe'— ' Narrowed his mind. And to party gave up what was meant for mankind—' who, from the height of his genius look• Perhap« the fine« scene in all the«* novels, u that where...

...in England> (he who draws his pen for one party must expect to make enemies of the other—Dryden) (who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, and to party gave up what was meant for mankind—Goldsmith) Bloc implies a combination of persons or groups who otherwise differ in party...

...his friend Burke, of whom Goldsmith said, with such truth, long ago 'that born for the universe, "he narrowed his mind" And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.' " The comment has led Leslie Chard II, who considers the question of Wordsworth's conversion to Burke in...